Former Texas A&M quarterback on Johnny Manziel: I couldn't imagine doing one of those signings for free

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There was not enough evidence that Johnny Manziel received money for autographs, but he was suspended for two quarters of Saturday's Texas A&M-Rice game for signing items he knew would be sold by someone else for profit.

Former Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson joined Elf and Slater on KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan on Thursday. Here are some highlights from the interview.

On whether he had done signings:

“I never did it on the scale that Johnny did as far as having sit downs and signing that many items until post college when I was training for the combine in Nashville. You do the Upper Deck’s and the Topps and all those companies. I couldn’t imagine doing one of those signings and signing that many autographs for free. So for me when it all came out, it was kind of like, ‘Yeah.’ If you asked me my opinion, I thought he got paid for it. That’s kind of the general consensus because if you know the industry, those kind of sittings aren’t for free. But with that being said, if you got it all in cash there’s nothing you can prove.”

On how many guys he knows who did the same thing:

“I just don’t know. I’ve heard of guys doing the A.J. Green thing, selling jerseys, but I’ve never really heard of too many college players having the signing sessions, if that makes sense. I’ve heard of guys — I’m not naming any names or anything — somebody getting a call like, ‘Look man, I’ll pay you this much for this, because I want it for a Christmas present for my grandpa’ or something like that.”

On if he got approached with money while he was getting recruited:

“I heard about it, but it never happened to me. … Of course you hear that all the time. Different guys have different war stories and (I don’t know) whether they’re (true) our not. Different guys would say ‘I got offered this’ or ‘I got offered that’ but it’s one of those things. As long as there is major money in college football and there are guys that have the money to do it, guys are going to stop at nothing to get recruits to come to their schools.”